(I didn't see the reply because I was not subscribed to the bug.) On 2009-11-29 23:14:25 +0100, Christian Hammers wrote: > Am Sun, 29 Nov 2009 13:50:00 -0600 > schrieb Graham Barr <gb...@pobox.com>: > > > I disagree 2007 is the correct answer, 07 is ambiguous so expecting > > 2007 is just as wrong as 1907 IMO.
In such a case, you should fix the documentation, as there are examples with 2-digit years: Wed, 16 Jun 94 07:29:35 CST Thu, 13 Oct 94 10:13:13 -0700 21/dec/93 17:05 16 Nov 94 22:28:20 PST (even though 2093 and 2094 haven't passed yet, users may want to deal with dates in the future). Also, you should say that Date::Parse must not be used to parse RFC2822 dates, or the user should first make sure that the year is on 4 digits, e.g. with: $date =~ s/( [A-Z][a-z][a-z] +)(\d\d) / $1.($2 + ($2 < 50 ? 2000 : 1900))." "/e; This is safe if used in a RFC2822 context, as RFC2822 makes 2-digit years unambiguous. -- Vincent Lefèvre <vinc...@vinc17.net> - Web: <http://www.vinc17.net/> 100% accessible validated (X)HTML - Blog: <http://www.vinc17.net/blog/> Work: CR INRIA - computer arithmetic / Arénaire project (LIP, ENS-Lyon) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org